* This petition is in no
way associated to L’Association pour la Protection du Saumon et de la
Rivière Pentecôte *

Hello everyone

This is a
personal petition from Jocelin LeBlanc, friends and citizens who want to
protect the Pentecôte River and Aux Rochers River against hydro electric
projects, We plan
to present this petition at the end of APRIL to.

Mr. Jean Charest, Prime Minister of Québec,

Mr. Claude Béchard, Minister of Natural Resources

Mme Line Beauchamp, Minister of Environment

Mme Laurence Méthot, Mayor of Port Cartier

We now need
your help to collect signatures by the end of April. It’s urgent and
very important!

This petition is to stop the planned construction
of 2 hydro electric dams, one on the Aux Rochers river and the other on the
Pentecôte river both rivers are located on the North Shore of Quebec.

This petition will help protect the
right of the citizens of Port Cartier and Rivière Pentecôte who are
against such a construction.

All the citizens of the City of Port
Cartier including Rivière Pentecôte, Baies des
Homards and Pointes Aux Anglais and all the friends of both atlantic
salmon rivers want you to help them stop this environmental disaster.

Here are some
important factors to retain

Both the Aux
Rochers River and Pentecôte Rivers are listed as ATLANTIC SALMON RIVERS by
the Quebec government.

The Aux
Rochers
River as an existing organization that puts its atlantic salmon in high
importance and has been working since the 80's in protecting and improving
salmon habitat. Today the Aux Rochers has a strong run of 1500 salmon
compared to 100 in the late 70's The citizens of Riviere Pentecôte are
also planning a similar program to help increase salmon population and
improving salmon habitat. The projected increase of salmon in the
Pentecôte river after implementing such a program will be 1600, today we
have an average run of 400 salmon.

The
Pentecôte River is the only atlantic salmon river that is not a ZEC
or private club west of Sept iles. This river offers free fishing to all
tourist and local anglers.

The
city of Port Cartier and AXOR are planning a 33 MW hydro electric project
on the Pentecôte River and the city of Port Cartier and Regional Power inc
are also planning to build a 42 MW hydro electric on the Aux Rochers
river, we all know that hydro electric dams could have some negative
effects on atlantic salmon, that's why we are asking you to help us stop
these projects.

On February 20 & 21 2009
the citizens of Rivière Pentecôte voted 61 % against the Pentecôte River
project, this vote reflects that the citizens are not interested in such a
project. The Mayor said publicly that she will not consider the vote and
will go forward with the project anyway. This is a unacceptable and we ask
you again to help us stop this nonsense once and for all

These are all the reasons
that all the petitioners are demanding you to suspend both projects
immediately and put a stop to all Hydro Electric project on the Aux
Rochers
river and Pentecôte River.

These rivers should be spared degradation from dams. A lot of money is
being spent taking out dams these days.

William H. Gass New Brunswick

Good Day

Please add my name to the petition to stop the building of dams on the Aux
Rochers River and Pentecôte River. In this day and age I cannot fathom the
construction of any dam on a river that contains Atlantic Salmon. The Saint John
River in NB is a prime example of where a river had a healthy salmon population
that has dramatically declined since the construction of the Mactaquac Dam. Fish
ladders do not work well enough to allow the salmon to sustain themselves in the
long term. Does Quebec not have enough large hydro dams in the north to provide
power to it residents or is this dam to produce power to sell to the US?

Andy Wren London England

I am a british based
salmon angler and am opposed to any and all threats to the magnificent salmon ,
interfering with the natural river has never helped the salmon or the tourist
industries that depend on the salmons being there !

Good luck with
this ,we anglers need to stand together against ,threats such as this and the
insidious salmon farming practices going on all over the globe !

Paul Moore Hamilton Ontario

Sea run fish are important
we already lost East Coast cod, lets save the Atlantic Salmon in every
watercourse.

Kerry Pitt, Alberta,
President Project Healing Waters Canada

I always thought
Mr. Charest was a better person than this shows him to be! I am so disappointed
he is proving to be no better than any of the others.

Bill Stevens
Maine

I am against any
construction of dams. Registered Maine Guide

Chris Gray UK

Please stop the
HydroElectric from upsetting the Aux Rochers and Pentecote rivers. the fish don't
like it.

Sharon Dorey
Nova Scotia

Please sign me up for the petition. I guess that is where Quebec is going to get
the extra energy they want to sell globally.

Ivo Balinov, Ottawa, Ontario

Please add my
name to the petition to stop the building of dams on the Aux Rochers River and
Pentecôte River. With so little left of salmon populations, the construction of
dams on rivers that contain Atlantic Salmon is anything but beneficial for our
societies and environment.

Michael Lenahan
Toronto Ontario

Please stop the
dams and allow the salmon to swim up these rivers to spawn and continue their
threatened species. Enhance exsisting dams leave the free flowing rivers for
the salmon

Ronald W.
Rothenberger Jefferson, Maine

I Ronald W. Rothenberger of Jefferson, Maine oppose the building of the Hydro
Electric Dams on the Penecote River and the Aux Rochers River.

Ben Greibus Montreal

Please suspend
both projects

Charles Storrow
Vermont

I often go to
Quebec to fish. Constructing these dams is a bad idea.

Martin Webster
London England

Atlantic salmon
are a precious and vulnerable resource. We should protect and enhance their
habitat and not destroy it.

Gary+Allen
Toronto

Leave our salmon
rivers alone

Raymond
Fairweather Lethbridge Alberta

We in Canada do
not kill our rivers The true north strong and Free.....Do not kill these river
this is what they do over seas not here in Canada... Keep our rivers free of
development

Alvin Hubbard New Hamphire

Please protect your salmon rivers, they
are a national treasure

Thomas P. Nanof
Belgrade, ME

The wild beauty
and survival of wild, native salmon and trout is paramount in this location and
era. Do not build the dam.

John B Fletcher
Saint John NB

Hi. I would like
my name added to this petition. I thought we learned from history about how
destructive hydro-dams are to river habitats. We have wind solar geo-thermal
and other renewable energies that do not devastate the environment nearly as
much. Lets get the people together and stop this non-sense

I watched a
documentary on a small town in Alaska that survived off of the pacific salmon,
and how a mine was going to come in and reconstruct the river, essentially
ruining the salmon industry. The small town stood up and fought the mining
company with petitions and protests, and so far the mining is not allowed to
happen.
I forget the exact river, but this was a showcased documentary at the Banff Film
festival. It would be good to maybe get a hold of the director, or someone from
that town and make an alliance, or get some feed back.

Best of luck saving our beautiful rivers.

Greg Taylor UK

This
indiscriminate destruction of an endangered species habitat must be stopped. The
indifference of the electorate does not mitigate the responsibility of
politicians and public officials to ensure that correct conservation measures
are adhered to so that we can all enjoy and admire the beauty of nature